Category Archives: The Cross of the Martyrs

Friends, let’s REJOICE with the Christians in Iraq right now! The cross has been a flashpoint of war since ISIS invaded Iraq. We will NEVER forget that the victory belongs to Jesus, His cross, His blood, His name, and His power. Jesus’ … Continue reading →

Dreams. Will God use dreams today? Maybe you believe that God stopped giving dreams to people after Jacob’s ladder or Paul’s vision of Cornelius saying come to Macedonia or Peter’s trance or Pilate’s wife’s dream that warned her not to … Continue reading →

“The people of the cross, followers of the hostile Egyptian church.” That’s the caption on the five minute video released by ISIS yesterday showing the beheading of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians. Reuters reported (in print, as I won’t send you … Continue reading →

Doi and Li, our Burmese foster daughters, were so exhausted after their arrival. The trip to America meant leaving all that they had previously known. Months earlier, both girls courageously escaped from Burma under extremely dangerous circumstances. One lay at the … Continue reading →

Yesterday, I shared in this blog that my daughter Doi is requesting prayer for the persecuted Christians in Burma (renamed Myanmar by the Burmese military government). In Burmese culture, people take pictures of their deceased loved one lying in … Continue reading →

In the last blog I shared just a little bit about displaying the cross and the humorous story of my Pakistani Christian friend, Shahbaz Bhatti, who exuberantly hugged an American “brother” who wore a cross necklace while walking the streets … Continue reading →